Art Quote by Walt Whitman

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became...

— Walt Whitman

“Once, as I passed by a cottage, there came out a lovely fairy child, with two wondrous toys, one in each hand. The one…

— George MacDonald

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new,…

— Wassily Kandinsky

“In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as…

— Peter Matthiessen

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

— Maria Montessori

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The…

— Samuel Smiles

“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them as surrendering…

— Hermann Hesse

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor…

— Peter Matthiessen

“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of…

— Charlotte Mason

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

— Maria Montessori

“Our inner child seeks happiness through play. The sun breaks through a dreary day. Renewal comes as the leaves return. Nature's balance gives you…

— Kevin S Garrison